Editing Page Elements with contenteditable

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Editing Page Elements with contenteditable

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index.html

<div id="page-wrapper">
		<h2>Toggle Editing with JavaScript</h2>
		
		<button id="editorBtn" type="button">Enable Editing</button>
<br>
  <div id="editor" contenteditable="true">
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		</textarea>
</div>

script.js

var editorBtn = document.getElementById('editorBtn');
var editorArea = document.getElementById('editor');

function overLimit(element) {
  element.style.color = "red";
}

function withinRules(element) {
  element.style.color = "black";
}

function verifyLength(element) {
  var maxLength = 140;
  var len = $(element).text().length;
  console.log(len);
  if (len >= maxLength) {
    overLimit(element);
  } else {
    withinRules(element);
  }
}

editorBtn.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  if (editorArea.isContentEditable) {
    // Disable Editing
    editorArea.contentEditable = 'false';
    editorArea.style["word-wrap"] = "break-word";
    editorBtn.innerHTML = 'Enable Editing';
    // You could save any changes here.
  } else {
    editorArea.contentEditable = 'true';
    editorBtn.innerHTML = 'Disable Editing';
  }
});
$(editorArea).on('input', function() {
  verifyLength(editorArea);
});

scripts

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>

style.css

html {
  font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 100%;
  background: #333;
  color: #555;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

#page-wrapper {
  width: 720px;
  background: #FFF;
  padding: 1em;
  margin: 1em auto;
  min-height: 300px;
  border-top: 5px solid #69c773;
  box-shadow: 0 2px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
}

h1 {
  margin-top: 0;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  color: #1E1E1E;
}

h2 {
  font-weight: normal;
  font-size: 1.4em;
  margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em;
  color: #1E1E1E;
}

button {
  display: inline-block;
  border-radius: 3px;
  border: none;
  font-size: 0.9rem;
  padding: 0.4rem 0.8em;
  background: #69c773;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #498b50;
  color: white;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 1em;
  text-align: center;
}

button:hover, button:focus {
  opacity: 0.75;
  cursor: pointer;
}

button:active {
  opacity: 1;
  box-shadow: 0 -3px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) inset;
}

div,
p {
  line-height: 1.6em;
}

section div {
  padding: 1em;
  background: #E6E6E6;
  border-radius: 3px;
  /*box-shadow: 0 1px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.15) inset;*/
  outline: none;
  border: 2px solid transparent;
}

section div:focus {
  background: #FFF;
  border-color: #69c773;
}